[libvirt] libxl: cannot connect to PV console

[Ian Jackson]

Jim Fehlig writes ("Re: libxl: cannot connect to PV console"):
> Dario Faggioli wrote:
> > Hey Jim,
> >
> > I'm on libvirt.git's trunk and I see the following:
> > [xen at ghoul3 libvirt.git]$ sudo ./tools/virsh list
> >  Id    Name                           State
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> >  3     debian_32                      running
> >  4     fedora20_64                    running
> >
> > [xen at ghoul3 libvirt.git]$ sudo ./tools/virsh console debian_32
> > Connected to domain debian_32
> > Escape character is ^]
> > error: internal error: cannot find character device (null)
> >
> > [xen at ghoul3 libvirt.git]$ sudo ./tools/virsh console fedora20_64
> > Connected to domain fedora20_64
> > Escape character is ^]
> > error: internal error: cannot find character device (null)
> >   
> 
> Looking at libxlDomainOpenConsole() in src/libxl/libxl_driver.c, it
> currently only supports a serial console.  Do you have one defined in
> these domains?  E.g.

If this is the root cause, it's a pretty bad error message.  Should I
or Dario take a look at the libvirt code to see if we can improve it ?

Ian.